Coldplay News

Miami.com are giving away VIP tickets to Coldplay's forthcoming show at the BankAtlantic Center this coming Sunday (9th November 2008). Here are the details:   If you're like me, you've got a bone to pick with Ticketmaster. "Convenience" charges (which aren't waived if you physically go to the box office, fyi)? And for each ticket? Is it really so much harder to stuff two into an envelope instead of one? Point is, even before economical hard times, I stopped going to concerts unless a) Ticketmas

virtual-festivals.com have teamed up with with Carling, who are gearing up to bring almost 50,000 gallons of ice cold beer to give away at this year’s Nokia Isle of Wight Festival… you lucky souls!   This year’s Nokia Isle of Wight Fetival is looking like the best yet with headline appearances from Coldplay, Foo Fighters and The Prodigy.   Plus at the festival this year, Carling are so determined not to let warm beer ruin your weekend they’re bringing their Cold Beer Amnesty to the Isle of Wight

Pre-order the new Coldplay CD ‘Viva La Vida’ through Amazon.ca and enter to win a VIP trip to see the band in Toronto.   If you have already pre-ordered you have received a special PIN (personal identification number) and a URL to this contest. Simply enter your PIN here and cross your fingers! The concert is on Oct. 30 in Toronto!   Prize Details:   Prize 1: 1 grand prize will include VIP trip and 2 tickets to Oct. 30 show in Toronto, one night hotel accommodation, $500 spending money, round tr

Following Coldplay.com's comeptition to win front-row tickets in the last Messenger - won by a fellow from Canada - they've got another corking contest for you this time.   One lucky winner will receive a pair of Will's drumsticks, signed by the entire band. To be in with a chance of winning, simply email your name and address to [email protected] before Wednesday October 8th.   Rules: One entry per person!

Even though there was no Glastonbury this year, festival season has arrived bearing more offspring than ever before. Indeed, so cluttered is the festival calendar that it’s a wonder that anyone can remember what field they’re meant to be in from one weekend to the next – that’s why I, for one, have taken the radical step of staying at home. Still, I’ve not totally detached myself from the ‘brilliant’ pastime of rolling in six-inch-deep mud while Jools fucking Holland tinkles his ivories on the m

Coldplay have just announced the winner of their Lost? video competition. This from Anchorman:   Good evening. The band have watched the shortlist. The votes have been counted. The winner has been decided. click here to find out which video it is. Anchorman   More news on this shortly...          

Thanks to Coldplayer Nattatouille, Coldplaying have been lucky enough to get Max McEllingott (the lead singer - pictured) of Coldplay support act, Wolf Gang (check out their website!), to agree to an exclusive Q&A with the site. The questions were sent in over the last few days and the answers have come back. Here they are - enjoy!   How did you come up with the name Wolf Gang? Would you change it if you could? My sister came up with the name actually, and for a while it caused a bit of conf

On December 1st, ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History will join with Gcast.com to launch the first ONE.ORG podcast. The World AIDS Day ONEcast will feature former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela, Bono, U2 lead singer and co-founder of DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade for Africa) and Chris Martin of Coldplay, along with members of the faith community and other ONE supporters.   A podcast is an audio recording, from a 10-sec sound to a 30- min radio show, stored as an MP3 file that is easily

Coldplay's growing domination of the global music market was confirmed today after the announcement that their latest album, X&Y, was the bestseller in 2005.   The British band, fronted by Chris Martin, have recently made a major breakthrough in the US, and already claimed the biggest selling digital album of the year award across the Atlantic. They have also led a British revival in America, with artists such as former army officer James Blunt following in their footsteps.   When X&Y wa

The official Coldplay site has a pair of tickets to win to see Chris Martin at the intimate acoustic session at Absolute Radio this coming Friday. Here's Anchorman with more details:   Good morning. As you know, Chris is playing a very intimate acoustic session for Absolute Radio this coming Friday (30th January). Well, the kind folks at Absolute have been in touch to offer Coldplay.com one pair of tickets to give away. Our winner will need to be available to go along to the session in London on

X Factor's Stacey Soloman was made up yesterday to receive a special delivery from Coldplay. The singer - nicknamed Dagenham Stace - was said to be ecstatic when she received a personalised signed disc from frontman Chris Martin and the rest of the band. It read: "We love watching you on TV. Your singing is great and you're very lovely, Coldplay x." See the photo after the jump.   Stacey sang Coldplay's track The Scientist in week one of the live finals and received praise from all four of the j

XFM's X List 2004 has now been revealed. Coldplay's two entries, Yellow and Clocks came in at 53rd and 74th respectively.   The final list in full is here   You can discuss the full list of tracks here

Reports suggest that at the Q Awards yesterday those long-standing enemies Coldplay and Oasis locked horns yet again for another round of mud-slinging and fisticuffs. So why are Noel, Liam and Chris discussing playing a gig together?   While Liam is reported to have heckled Coldplay’s Chris Martin with shouts of “plant pot”, it was all smiles and handshakes between the Oasis and Coldplay camps at yesterday’s Q Awards as their respective leaders, Noel Gallagher and Martin, got together on the red

Chris Martin has claimed that porn is a good place to look when stuck for inspiration, suggesting that two tracks on 'X&Y' may have double meanings.   Speaking to The Sun, he joked: "I'd been drained of ideas but then I started getting inspiration and it was mainly from porn. Maybe now you'll understand 'Hardest Part' or even ''Till Kingdom Come' quite differently."   'Fix You', the second single taken from the band's Mercury-nominated album, was released this week.   Source: digitalspy.co.

We're still looking for that elusive new album release date and new summer tour dates for both Europe and the US. All the dates this time round can be compared to 6/6/05, which of course was when X&Y was let loose.   Here are just a few important dates from three years ago. By this time in 2005 Coldplay had announced all their summer tour dates and had already played a secret gig in London, and were half way through their set at The Troubadour. And that was all for a June 6th release.   Cold

Amazon.com today released its “Best Of 2005 List” which includes the best selling, most positively reviewed, most wished for, and favorite gift products as determined by Amazon.com customers in 2005.   The black 2GB iPod nano was the fourth best selling product–as counted by total units sold–behind Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (books), X&Y by Coldplay, and Star Wars Episode III- Revenge of the Sith (DVD).   The 20GB iPod was No. 4 on its list of products that appea

John Kennedy will be doing an Xfm Album Playback of Coldplay's 'X&Y' with full commentary from the band on the 31st May 05 on X-Posure Part 2.   Presented by Claire Sturgess and new music guru John Kennedy, X-Posure is Xfm's showcase for all that's cutting edge. The show covers the best singles, live cuts and album tracks that the alternative underground has to offer.   For more details please visit the XFM website.

Official announcement as of a few days ago.   X&Y (the album) due out June 6 on Parlophone (UK/Europe) and June 7 on Capitol (North America).   Speed of Sound (single) due out May 23 (again, probably the 24th in the US if they even release the single here).   No artwork as yet; see coldplay.com for more (and more timely) details.

Menphix is happy to announce the release of X&Y Coder Version 0.1 (Codename "Apple Pie").   This is an original version of this fun program. The main purpose of this software is to help people write X&Y code (the code drew in the in lay of Coldplay's latest album).   For more details click here

Coldplay's X&Y moves into its 13th week at the top of European Top 100 Albums, but there`s finally a new No. 1 on Eurochart Hot 100 Singles, where James Blunt`s 'You`re Beautiful' (Atlantic) ends the 11-week reign of Crazy Frog`s 'Axel F' (Mach1).   X&Y climbs from 9 to 8 in Austria, but its current highest ranking is at No. 4 in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Sweden. The single 'Speed of Sound' improves 8 to 7 in Spain; its successor 'Fix You' was released in the United Kingdom on Mon

You can fully preview all tracks of X&Y thanks to MTVAsia's "The Leak". For full details please click here

X&Y is at the number one spot in the US and UK album charts for the third week.   The album notched up just over 1million sales in its first two weeks of release stateside, and now having sold around 186,000 copies this week has booked a third week at the top of the billboard chart.   The album is simultaneously at the top spot of the album chart in the UK where it’s also residing for a third week. UK sales are expected to boom even more after Coldplay's stunning performance at Glastonbury

Coldplay's record label EMI have a lot riding on the band's new album 'X&Y' and are reported to be keeping it under tight security until the official release date.   The stringent decision has been made in order to stop the release from falling in the wrong hands and appearing on illegal download networks before it is unleashed to the public. Coldplay's follow up up to the incredibly successful 2002 breakthrough release 'A Rush of Blood to the Head' stands to make enormous revenues for the r

Barnes & Noble has posted track times to the new album, and if you haven't already you can listen to clips of each track as well, here

LONDON: Coldplay's new album "X&Y", which hits the shops in Britain on Monday, has become the most pre-ordered album yet on Amazon.co.uk, the British arm of the US online retailer said Friday.   It has been at the top of Amazon.co.uk's 100 albums chart since March 15, when it became available for pre-order, but only on Friday did it overtake Dido's "Life for Rent" for the pre-order honours.   Though Amazon.co.uk did not release actual sales figures for Coldplay's third album, it said pre-or